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title: “See here,” answered the White Cat, holding up an acorn; “there is a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “See here,” answered the White Cat, holding up an acorn; “there is a prettier one in this than in the Dogstar!” Who acts: White Cat. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 64

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“See here,” answered the White Cat, holding up an acorn; “there is a prettier one in this than in the Dogstar!”

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**Who acts:** White Cat · **What happens:** see, answer, hold up, be · **To what, where:** acorn, prettier one, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:23:64
# text = “See here,” answered the White Cat, holding up an acorn; “there is a prettier one in this than in the Dogstar!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	nsubj	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Dogstar	Dogstar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the White Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold up** | gerund | the White Cat *not said here* | a acorn |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot acorn=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a prettier one |  | this |  | than the Dogstar | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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